During the hour-long webinar, the panel will preview these five short videos, which explain in cartoon-style why “identity” is important to everyone – eBusiness managers, eCommerce operations and individual eConsumers – and how to safeguard our ability to control and manage our own identity and privacy in cyberspace. Then, a panel Q&A will discuss the need as to why every online user needs an identity ecosystem that satisfies our Jericho Forum Identity Commandments. The webinar will also coincide with the second day of the inaugural NSTIC Identity Ecosystem Steering Group meeting in Chicago on August 15-16, in which The Open Group will be a strongly supportive participant.

The webinar panel is made up of the following members and advocates of the Jericho Forum:

Ian Dobson is the director of the Security Forum and the Jericho Forum for The Open Group, coordinating and facilitating the members to achieve their goals in our challenging information security world. In the Security Forum, his focus is on supporting development of open standards and guides on security architectures and management of risk and security, while in the Jericho Forum he works with members to anticipate the requirements for the security solutions we will need in future.